diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/feature-gate-stmt_expr_attributes.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/feature-gate-stmt_expr_attributes.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..831d8862e109c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/compile-fail/feature-gate-stmt_expr_attributes.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+// Copyright 2015 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+const X: i32 = #[allow(dead_code)] 8;
+//~^ ERROR attributes on non-item statements and expressions are experimental. (see issue #15701)
+
+fn main() {}
diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/features.rs b/src/tools/tidy/src/features.rs
index d3c4378f9e75d..93593b97555a0 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/src/features.rs
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/features.rs
@@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ pub fn check(path: &Path, bad: &mut bool) {
 
     // FIXME get this whitelist empty.
     let whitelist = vec![
-        "stmt_expr_attributes",
         "cfg_target_thread_local", "unwind_attributes",
     ];